ASANSOL, “THE CITY OF BROTHERHOOD” TOWARDS THE DEN OF CRIMINALIZATION. A PERSPECTIVE STUDY OF RELATIVE CONCENTRATION OF CRIME IN THE “CRIME-NEXUS”.

The social disorganization and crime has direct relationship with that of physical space as each and every body or organization along with human society is established in definite geographical space. Whereas crime is a self explanatory term signifying groups or individual’s action against social well being and is thus punishable under legal system. The relative extend and the concentration of crime is thus influencing the space directly. The city of Asansol sub-division in the Western part of Burdwan, West Bengal is experiencing an immense change from mining- industrial to commercial one, and is rapidly adding stimuli to the change in social order and facing spatial concentration of various types of crime. Here urbanization is not only the cause of rising crime trend, but there are also some other determinants which are closely related to it such as inflation, unemployment and income inequality. During past few years the increased crime rate of the foresaid area converted it to be a ‘crime-nexus’. The study here aims at identifying the relative nature of concentration of types of crime in the area. The delineation of the more crime prone zones of this Sub-Division shall also be peeped into during the course of this paper.